prior to @retropalshq stream tonight i've got myself into a big Japanese internet hole about Culture Brain. it's a fascinating company without much good info about it in English at all
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They haven't updated their website since the reorganisation and according to the shitposters they vacated their former office so it may be that the company is effectively dormant now & just exists for licensing
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wait here's some red-hot info I totally missed out on? they helped develop DONKEY KONG??? this is from NOA's own "Insider's Guide to the NWC"pic.twitter.com/PqmdL95s0l
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more behind-the-scenes info from GDRI http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Blog:Mikame_and_Me … the producer/owner mentioned would be Yumenosuke someone with ideas and passion also being a gigantic asshole who drives talented staff away? in the games industry??? never!pic.twitter.com/TLGoACTWOZ
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Shunichi Mikame, the interviewed composer, apparently worked on the Japanese version of Scheherazade and was fired shortly before it came out. his music was replaced in the later (and massively-overhauled) US version.pic.twitter.com/kcAI8pZo5g
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a bit from the wiki which i think is real - Culture Brain's various locations https://w.atwiki.jp/culturebrainwiki/pages/21.html … they started from this building in the 80s which they kept as a warehouse all the way until 2016 when it was demolished for apartmentspic.twitter.com/amKRvbExWy
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in the 90s they had a 7 storey marble office building?!? and then apparently lost it when the financial bubble burst the office location shifted around a bit after that, most famously ending up above a bento shop, now it's just based out of a private residencepic.twitter.com/5OM5d88VfQ
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oh yeah i missed the most important part here's yumenosuke in his cool shadespic.twitter.com/M8qJOMHD6X
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since this thread is getting traction again i just wanna tack on some important details i missed - the company was founded as Nihon Game and changed to Culture Brain in 1987 - Nihon Game Sales was an affiliate company, this became Micro Academy and finally Culture Brain Excel
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their arcade games were copyrighted to "Taiyo System", I can't find any definite info on this but Japanese sources seem to suggest this was just a name used by Nihon Game and not another company
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more info on their Donkey Kong involvement - apparently they helped with PCB productionhttps://twitter.com/lenculeentongs/status/1300804124162887682 …
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this makes sense given DK's history tbh - the initial run was produced by Ikegami & then Nintendo made 80k more without their permission (see http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Company:Ikegami_Tsushinki …) presumably N didn't have the ability to make the additional PCBs alone so asked other contacts in the arcade biz
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Oh god they did Space Hunter
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